James Taranto's Best of the Web Today: Cop Killers for Kerry

WSJ/Opinion Journal ^ | August 26, 2004 | James Taranto

[JohnHuang2]

BY JAMES TARANTO
Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:27 p.m. EDT

Cop Killers for Kerry
Well, maybe not quite for Kerry, but against Bush anyway. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the murderer of Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner and a hero of the extreme left and the French, has an article in Workers World, the newspaper of the eponymous "independent Marxist" party, in which he declares that "President Bush's cowboy-style diplomacy, and the slick way he promised to govern one way only to actually govern another, has grated on people, until many just want to see him quietly pass into retirement."

But Abu-Jamal is skeptical of Kerry's central foreign-policy argument:

One of Kerry's selling points is his plan to appeal to Europe to give a hand to the American colonial project in Iraq, instead of the cold shoulder which the Bush regime has received since the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

But plans are one thing; obstacles, another. Nations don't deal with other nations because they like or dislike a nation's leader. They deal with others based on the guiding light of self-interest. As the British Viscount Palmerston (H.J. Temple, 1784-1865) intoned in the British House of Commons in 1848: "We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests, it is our duty to follow."

[goldstategop]

Turns out a Commie cop-killer runs circles around "nuanced" John F*ckin' on foreign policy.

[gunnygail]

I'd like to see Abu-Schiesskopf pass into the nearest solid waste treatment plant.

Damn, yet ANOTHER grave I'll have to pi$$ on....

[gunnygail]

I'd like to see Abu-Schiesskopf pass into the nearest solid waste treatment plant.

Damn, yet ANOTHER grave I'll have to pi$$ on....

[oblomov]

"President Bush's cowboy-style diplomacy, and the slick way he promised to govern one way only to actually govern another, has grated on people, until many just want to see him quietly pass into retirement." A few notes: -Abu-Jamal refers to him as "President Bush" rather than the NYT-favored "Mr. Bush", so at least he accords Bush respect where due. -He attributes dislike of Bush to other people, and does so in a rather measured tone: "[he] has grated on people, until many just want to see him quietly pass into retirement." -Abu-Jamal is more careful and respectful in his critique of Bush than the New York Times, John Kerry, and the rest of the DNC.

[gunnedah]

This Hollywood crew is something else. They are strictly anti-American.
Two examples: First they want to free this cop killer, a man who stood over a downed officer and put a gun to his head and blew his brains out.
Next they want to make an example of the Manson follower who comes before the parole board every year she can and begs for parole, I forget her name but she did not kill anyone but did stab a dead person. She has been in jail for around 34 years. I dont question whether she should be there but I question the stand Hollywood takes when it comes to protecting themselves and the stand they take on those who protect them.
Remember it was Barbara Streisand and a group of those celebrities out there that blocked off the public beaches in their neighborhood to ordinary citizens. They are all elitist like the Heinz Kerrys and Democrat leadership. You know the ones that believe in diversity and think women in Iraq were better off under Saddam if they stayed out of his way.
Anyone voting for Kerry/Edards or the Democrat leadership in America today is asinine.

[old and tired]

Speaking of Philadelphia commie murderers, I think Ira Einhorn is sitting just over Kerry's left shoulder during the 1971 Congressional testimony...

[gunnedah]

I think you are correct. I wonder what goes on in Massachusetts and Boston. That elitist crowd does some of the most horrific things one can think of and the people up there must sanction it and elevate them to their highest positions.
I see William Kennedy Smith may have attacked another women. Maybe they just rule by intimidation up there. Come to think of it that seems like the M.O. for the Democrat Party.

[NYCop]

Mumia the lib darling, needs to take a hit for his team.

[NYCVirago]

When, or if, a President Kerry speaks softly and perhaps in French, to Europeans, seeking an infusion of European troops into the rolling ruins of a burning Iraq, he will hear a polite yet firm response: "Pardon! Monsieur Kerry--mais non!" ("Sorry, Mr. Kerry--but no!")

I can't argue with that!